The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-07-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

cier.
WILL CARLETON is engaged on a volume
of poems.
The session of the German Reichstag
has closed.
In the Grand Canyon Of Colorado snow
is still ten feet deep.
COFFEE isn't settled yet. Spectators
are still stirring it up.
CoTToS blooms are making their appear
ance in West Tennessee.
RARE manuscripts in the Libraries Of
Paris are to be photographed.
HAwATHA, KAN, has young lady who
watches over 1900 silk worms.
KEELY, of motor fame, says he is getting
tired. So are the stockh olders.
THE Chicago lawyers are holding a coro
ner's inquest on the late wheat deal.
IT is said that three fourth Of the women
in New York city are wage earners.
A BULLET aimed at Miss Geary, Of st.
Louis, lodged in her newspaper hustle.
Mr.. LESS, of Cumru, Pa, sold sixteen
dollars worth Of cherries off one tree.
ALL hope Of getting natural gas in
Cleveland, o., is practically abandon ID.
The making Of shoes OH contract in Penn
sylvania prisons will cease in November
next.
GENERAL MEADE's monument in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, will be dedicat-
ed on October Is.
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, now in
Paris, is spending money ut the rate Of
t600,000 annually
THE Prussian minister OF education re-
fuses TO admit women to the universities
or medical schools
THERE is "A general belief that the tobacco
tax will be abolished early in the coming
session of Congress.
BrsMARcK's two boys put in more hours
OF solid laber every day than any two
young men in the fatherland
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON, the Countess
Miranda, now owns the house where Ad-
miral Coligny was murdered
"THE-man-w ho-ran- s o-fast- that-th e-wind
was-left-behind," is the name of recently
elected chief of the Sioux tribe.
A COMMISSION to inquire into the phenom-
enon Of spiritualism has been appointed
by the University OF Pennsylvania.
LoNDoN's latest dynamite sensation, af-
ter thorough investigation, turns out to be
water damaged tire-cracker fright.
THE cottage Of the late General Grant is
being retitted and it is said will be occu.
pied part Of the summer by Mrs. Grant.
MOSQUITOES, according 10 a recent bulle-
tin of the United States Fish Commission,
are deadly enemy 10 young brook trout.
The postmaster at Scott Bar, Cal,
stands seven feet high in his stockings
the tallest postmaster in the United States.
WILSON WADDISGHAM, OF Connecticut, is
the largest land-holder in tho United
States. He owns the title to two million
acres.
Mrs. RosENBURG, Of the Treasury De- I
partment at Washington, is the best coun- |
terfeit detector in the world. She gets /
81 800 year.
The library of the British Museum now !
contains more than 1000, 900 books, which |,
occupy three miles lineal of bookcases |
eight feet high.
The pension office at Topeka, Kan. dis |
bursed S24l, 0S7 during the past quarter. |
There are 2s,072 honorably discharged sol |
diers on the roll.
KANSAS boasts Of having the tallest man
in this country, Mr.. j. ID. Hasden. He is !
seven feet, three and a half inches high. |
He lives at Lakin.
A SMALL train has been safely run, with |
out annoyance in the way Of smoke and !
cinders, on the Pennsylvania rail way with !
petroleum as fuel.
THE largest Delaware shad caught this
season is claimed to be one CAPTURED mt
Billingsport, N. j., which weighed nine |
and quarter pounds.
A MAN In Nauvoo, H., claims TO have a
span Of mules that were used in hauling
stone for building the Mormon temple In
that place fifty years ago.
MANUEL NOEL, an aged French Canadian.
residing at Laconia, N. H., Toasted on "A
pound Of raw bcefsteak, IA few Says ago,
and died within half an hour.
"A STATUE OF President Arthur is to be
erected In Madison Square, New \ ork. The
sum OF $4,000 will be needed, of which
$4,000 has been already raised.
In a garden at Woodland, Cal, Is grow
ing clump OF wheat which is a curiosity
because OF the fact that l6l stalks have
spread from one kernel of wheat
In the great Eastern institutions of
learning they fully appreciate the value of
gymnastics. Harvard's gymnasium cost
$4,000, Yale's $l25, and Columbia's
ei56,OOO.
The new coins which are now 10 be is
sued in England In honor of the Queens
jubilee, bear the likeness Of her Majesty,
with small crown above the widows cap
and veil
1T behooves Boston girls to carry extra
magnifyipg glasses when visiting in the
rural districts, as one of the dear creatures
mistook bumblebee for blackberry The
other day.
ALFRED SuLLY, the New York railroad
magnate, presented check Of ifty thou
sand dollars TO his niece, who graduated